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VOL. XVI. NO. 39.
NEW YOKK, SATUKDAY, FEBRUABY 16, 1856.
WHOLE NO. 819.
Uutioirol JUtt-Slaiifrij ^taii&ari).
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ON SATURDAY,
ANTI-SLA VER1
h Fifth St., Philadelphia.
THE POOR WHITES OF THE SOUTH.
1850, \
lui.ii'lred and twenty-live.
[endelil of lheeoii...|.m. lv„,if,J ,.ju. 1 g/ell.
tier of person.-, interested as slaveholdc
ris-iit, or bv hii'iiiv ri-lniiou. The whole i
iu the slavcholding States being 6,222,41
ing proportion i-: a i'.uelioti short of 31! pel
The Superintendent of tlie cons "
says of the number, 347,520, I'etur.
id forty-seven thousand fiv
in average of five person
med by the Superit
'-, the sliiveliiild-
Profcssor De Bow,
" slavehirers " merely
interested conjointly wilh others, m
lily relations, already
multiplied the number
.Marvlaii.l, Virg/lnnt, and the [ti-lricl ol Columbia, with
\li.-i-.lppi ami Louisiana, with S<t7,WI slaves, ivlm ii
■etiirued in Virginia, .Maryland ami ihe lli.liu-l of I'm
tenths of Ihe
The nun
ne veins aud upward, in 1850, wa. _,__,
Id, returned i
n slaves.
■mI "Ming whites of the
n-tenths of the whole l
; one-fifth of the while
or' of whites,
inijitiiy into Iheir
they have no real
political weigh), or eo us id oral ion in the country, and little
opportunity lo speak for Ihenisi-lves. I have been for
twenty years a reader of Southern newspapers,
; bin :
gills of the South, or i .-
institutions are spoken ef,
o (In; rbiliM, wrongs. police,
■ ' 1 forty
from tbe South but by their direction ; nobody speaks
Washington Iin any Southern interest except thei is.
Vet there is, ai llu' Soul h, quite utiuth.r interest than
theirs; unibraeu'g from iwo lo three times as many while
psnple; ami, as u'e shall presently see, entitled to the
vino L.I by and coiuiiii-.erntiou, in i lew of ihe Iili-
I, :'inl, intcllei'tual and mnr.il nrivuliims to which it has
been subjected, Ike degradaliou bi whieli il has aireudy
boon reduced, and tin; still more leuriul degruilntioii wilh
uiiieh it is threatened by the inevitable operation of
txisLinit causes aud influences.
From a paper oo " Domestic IMuin.ifuuliirc.s in the
Soiilaauil West," published by M. Tarver, of MiSSOUl i,
'MS mU
e the following e
employed white population of South Carolina had evi-
detitly fivui rise lo some visions „r soeml outliieak and
anarchy, which Mr. Taylor tools ea.ileil i p
'I'hese poor people, who were willing to lie mini:'trie us li
■ imiiuoilvin be so. bi'.i to whom no labour
r people, who w
'mityti
n degrading t
■ furn
■ourugit
-faring*
. wild nkiiifii-
n the negro, but yet
by the satisfaction that they were above the negro
respects. But at length light was beginni
te even into South Carolina, and these unl
beings were catching a glimpse of the truth, that
" ' depths of poverty and humiliation, had
rights and were entili ■
falls upon the suffering. They were fast learning
there existed, in happier communities, modes of ind
which, if opened to them, would elevate them and
families from wretchedness and ignorance to compi
heaving ol tlr il ij, the «ocial
md domestic inslitutmns ef Sotilh Carolina unless pro-
iry, theBe poor whites
ing labour, they would
Jf, on the i
ith remiu
■1 of property ami enhancing it
could be furnished n
place ibemclves iu a position of comfort, and t
upon the subject
limine!
■tied by deuiiiy of peptdai
id industry enjoy ing' any
e, intelligence and ivspec-
1 countries are comparatively poor,
riesarecompara-
voly rich ; because rude labour, even upon rich soils, is
>:: productive than skilled labour, aided by muchim ry
and accumulated capital,
vely agricultural, res
slave States (which
It is noticeable that Mr. Gregg, like Mr.'I
jy an attempt to allay patrician jealousies excited by the
den of eolleeiinglliopoor whiles inlo miisses. Mi'. Gregg
minin nui Iliiir the existence of slavery euuliie.-i eiipila! lo
■ontrol white labour lh well as black, by Ike power which
t retains to sub:1 itute the laiier. win n Ihe former l.'"oomes
lly cut. oil' even from this by the
'up with black slaves
eeeiilu:- gemr;
; uml the poi
P "
energy enoii;
only 27-1,ho::,
Tho u!
according to Mr. Gregg'
* unproduc'"" "
, tal, enler,
employed in c
/holly neglected, whiling away an exist
i advance of the Indian of the forest
and the comforts
South Oarolirw, by the
nearly ouv-half,
n Mat.t.idly idle
'.■':■
do truly cons
' ally i'or -,,.,
Gov. Hammond,
follows
I their children to
. ',0' I
u 1850, describes these poor whites ns
at-'3 '"^%ltu^riorZtir^lsJ'& **
Greggspeaks as follows:
p,,e,l,,ll,.t.,).ro
Is it really ti
hat South Carolina n
which one-filth of
ibe r
avageb, while
In a paper ,
c'.-'io-eation of the Smith.
lion -I. 11. Lumpkin, of Georgia, says :
ing nnd discouraging; distres,;-
wuy to nsjieetabiliiy so difficult that they decline thi
hopcf ss pursuit, ceasing to struggle, and becoming lis,
almost ]i.m:,i.o subject, of iho coiiMipieuci.', of idleiU'is
.. ■ j ■ .,■ o: il'iti il o.vhii'its ibis great bulk of tl ■
white population growing worse instead ot better, evl
tiinlly diteriiiniliug.iiuil iis younger portion less edueatid,
less iiiiluslriiii.i.,, and in fiery point of view less lespeela-
' In tin: Janiiarv number, of I soil, of De Bow's Review,
ionr, nvCu-\o.t,i.<-Muaitl\<t:l,<rc^ in Smith Co.ro!,,ni," by J.
n which I make the
alounyof the slightest
destitute
maracler. Is
dissolve this Union
A paper upou
" ' MrfOh
! ' " o ml .
of the Sm
i substance.
acquainted
The italicising in these extracts is Mr, Taylor's, and
Mr. Tavlor expresses himself in a very confused and
'--■I' i "-ay, but it is not dilllenll io ui/l. rstuu.l what
Je ia addressing himself to the slaveholding
.n.l he describes these: poor whites very much
French pblloscndier would describe the blouses of the
"'- the Fanbonrjr St.
aristocracy,
■FauhourgJSi. Antolne to poll
if ehurueler.
live this (
y Mr: Charles T. J
Mr.'.bn,
and of any just
ml be pennilted
m Iflallfa "
Inited Slal
,n De Bow's
ylor, Gregg
mils nave made
lauufaclui'cs in all
s (United States Senator),
iin r "
JIV,-.',
L Richmond (Ya.) newspaper, The Disputdi.iinyr:
States, and the number
(excluding liiri-ign-liiifii) in e
' ~""'" persons, excluding fo
ity years of age, una
reward ei"
fairly
.are aggra-
Ic-tity, atui nil ihe gre:U ineti Of the Soul is
ii'liu'ry ejiOch.depi'iori.d, iiiii which ihe mn,b
times hugs as a blessiu-tr.
.; labour arc always
mltural. Industry
l it is united wilh ski
ivided, and when th _
raised by the
o of eoii'pelem
•ciulcountt
jecially in the more north-
ning and inaiiuls.oiiiring], liinu flu: institution of
., unili.'i'which tin.to eunnot ne in Ike orgnuixnlion
iety that middle class, which, in free States, is the
of agricnitur
this by " ■
panionship with black slaves, i
ils—mere squ
i: ■ ■: ■ ■
upon rich soils and flouris
'" -im. It knows how to
flexibility, uo power o
com piecing disoiui
lie following extrac
u, becomes a hunter upon tlie
o with flocks aud herds.
the m iv iLtifl rich soils of Ike
e leSsnepMielit ; liutthedown-
■■ small planter, ^nccumbs lo
.■ leilingly it is depicted
It is undoubtedly true Hint Ihe entidi
would I
icliorated
■uised.uliiltheproit
benefited by
changed. The pro
ofk
Ion of the South
nch would p
HI i
him from the «
-' .irlcen hh
anil liiglier wages
ic mial, overshadowing
l tho field would drive
Cotti,
■', Gin-t liiiio.en
jntgomery, in his treatise
-mjodnres nf the Vnil,it States Compared
is that
there not being a wane man in the mil
dent." The employment of slaves is e>
at the South, in factories and miuini
« The Future of the South " (De Low'
page 146) says that '-the-blacks uru eq
)a>!o,iiiOs infields."
A writev in The Mississippian aaya
■ei'1-where
author of
■, vol. id.
slave :.o free States, 1
Ight to a!
. Onth
the following e
s a transposition of t
find the true number;
ie observed that the «
double that of the si
e of Southern whites i
' .. " ..:' ■'.: .
It is to be olr
i-ing South.
'that ike il
called, as if in bitter
There is reason euor
iressing upou the i
i, last and strongest, what
a numbers living in frei
■
W from 838,387, the entire number of emigrants from
use Slates, we deduct otiefouflli pari, asMtiiied lo be
.'1,1: is of slaves, ami I ltd iibie i-ompclled io .elect iheir
.-Idem: In slave States, we have loft 628,790 as the
iliiber oi emigrants not holders of sla'.es, oo-i .:■
■ llin' piujiit.
propriate io iheir ministry, n moral questions
ot enter here, what should ? Aud if questions
g the happiness of millions, and tlie good relations
in wilh section, and man with man, throughout
; lite saddest day that evci" lawned on the country
is was made any other than a moral question. In
the day wheu it was made one of nalmnal podlieid i-suc.
If tbe emi.gral.iiui from the border States, it is to be
tes, is less controlled by the consideration of climate
ti is the direction of ih'; i ' ■ ;!■
ni. ov the extreme South.
'he following table shows the number of persons living
.850 in Illinois, JndiMi.a a-..;' Mi .v ui, who emigrated
a tbe slave States, cicludug the border States, and
lading Arkansas, which is adjacent to Missouri:
Here is -a:-, emigration iuvoivi;:-; considerable journies
u-'d not cuulrollid by ibe coiioide.lotion of immediati
d three-fifths
, fair inference,
the Southern emigrau
" " s of these emigrants
tlie operation of the
i, mboiityo
slaveholders w
• otherwi:,c any political weight
lable that
Where it forms a i
□ Southern Illinois,
standard of intellig
,h;t.:::o.'"ll'rcSoUt
lock. They are
tlested upon a he
nd still resph '
>o banner flo
of the Valley
Inguishable gallantry of tl
If the Constitusii';
' Mexico than that up-bor
wello
■ ■ :
[hat no equal
u He whole, a
astwithtl "
■ ■ .: I ■;-.-
orrible pit nl'the
he South to rcei.i
'.a not permit them to recap-
nlser of negroes
s of the &
advancement. liven if ilu.-j
" a half of
stock have been deprived of
ol t];,- area slavery would
"period of time, liven if tiiis be
3uty is to our own ra.
inejccusible folly to p
It as we now witness in the Southe
over again upon the vast areas of the West. Where thi
, ibe i. e.tlou v.hioii jo.'i be
subsist between them may ai:b.
;,uti; I-, ii'ii.iiisi the clear aud manifest dictates of commoi
sense, vol,nuni'livM willingly and with our eyes open,
subject the white man to a com
any tei a lien, is un incumbrance
An equal n
order of Provk'
inferior n
It is sa
add to the personal c
cimsiderab!
, e paid for
trof people of the ■■
rtoti;L
' ■
will be a
h a sacrifi
States to be enacted
a companionship which, u
t upon regions r
aofw
7 and virgin from the
■
in an article Upon the Estaidtshine-nt -.,f Monojoeiori:., oj
New Orleans, which I find in De Bow's Re.view for
January, 1850. The writer, whose name is not given,
but who appears to be a citissen of New Orleans, says:
" At present, *^r^» Tci-^alite^andTn inabUk"'^
.''■,l...m.'
of low wages and want of employment
, of Tennessee, in a paper upon
ashedoes, thceiui.'ioviuiiti
', u
whites in factories.as
more for the general good
mimanity. Men are
not governed in matters 0
adapted to factories,
it iiil
be employed, be the
consequences to the commi
employed exclusively,
as in the Tenne
be insuperable repug-
de and on an equalitj
with black slaves.
The difficulty in the case
cible. Tbe property-
sand serviceable body
lllsii"
..boitrers, who
in be fed for S^i) pec utumn
aud clothed for 810 per ai
ium; who can be kept indus-
;rious uud preserved from
ibilitatiug vices by coercion
and, under any tolerable
operty-holding three-
'ir kboSa?eCtel!' Wh6Q
It is not wonderiul tl
nightmare which bioo.b ,,
seek escape from the
and fly by thousand!
born in the slave States, w
206,638 persons born
heighten the hidcrm1 reality
which the
- ■ ■ ?mpi
shall be
if the doubtful assent of embryo
■
It is lor
ished field;
neglected and
itude, of proximity, of border violei
I assent of embr
the other hand, it shall
universal as the iaipoiwity of Good to Evi
perpetual as the rightful authority
tbeaffai
mbodied will of tl
Geo. M. Westos.
res of these States,
s slill unorganized.
: apprehension new
itriot. Our young
isen before him, and
liie ihe llvdra here.
n toward manifold
s ! whither has thy
i common ground.
different parties.
I do not think the pulpit
such. I, ther
doubt, as L touch this mo
that you will sympathize with meat
also o! ,!iv. •-.-
used to assa
not permit my.
lubject, that yc
other. I do so only
my heart barns to point you to the anciei
' "".oug, whieli, when seen, n
■, like the objects of tbe
evidence.
I.elosn; I;
estate of thin)
imist—the
f Eight a
I
s to itself will
iy circle, moral or geometric, being gU
, be discovered and described, and the rt
s no words on the do-^iua thai such subji
; humanity. It
■oiupleieiy tl,, w
i the*
e all qu
n of North and S
should be banished as unhealthy here,
an any other the just
■
you may predict his
i but blackened earth and ashes ; thei
1 the poli
and the political
I . v, uleh-iJri.
!es have fallen
ugher ..wiikesis. Hitherto w
show you how this political
failed,e
>s canvassed.
Ml'. ni '..
ibjects no higher than its own. Eacl
ae torward with its nostrum, declaring itsel
old Dr. Jacob Townsend, whose pills, am
rMMnSMM ,,,,„::;: ninV
.tioiiality. Tho Inflammation has spread with every
i ■ on until this; and with this, the very powers
o'iammaliou io ipnud seem nearly death-
11. I doubt not it would be so with the udminisiKiti a
any merely political party in the country. Let the
people know,
: : M
they who I
of the slavery question—every wheel
stilled 1
of things, it will not be the popular heart,
i knows how alone he :" ■ <■■,...-.
able over the souls of the departed, or beneath them,
uiescat in puce, bat no soul ov< . rested in peace until
i It by the path of purity. And the greater
' ' i obeys tbe laws of the
obey the laws of indi-
iut collect io
; allowed
.mt!'" Oi,i; le!
'.',-'. „-,;<(,'(
duty, and tbey demand ni
agitation is abroad, it is
ience has been loosened
. MM . .- -.-. , :" . mm .:.'■::■. ' ■ ! I ' I. 0
beneath the waters u
unite, or remain united
We are called the n
derive their power in Imki siav
individuals of the States, are
::;!' DoEnglai
sible for one another's pi
National (liinu::
ii":. lo th:,'
ma did not
.fin, and do
They
ilityt.
ility for what
[.topic, o: b
lone by'
: I lie free Slal
ilUni
ten been threatened
} tl I I the privilege is
the Hill ol' liisihts of nearly everv Soulh-
thus lost flic conlideuenj of
rn State. The South has t
lany of her own childr
iseti by their lordly s
Henry, und by them transmitted a;
denied them by men who, besme tlmse, are Jilfipo-
Those who deny L!,at ibe full sruilig-ht sheuld play
ubiive and beneath and around any subject, can never eon-
;e any disinterested person that tbey are iu ihe rial-;.
before Jesus said, " \VhosO doeth right
eht,"aud it has beCD inn i .
icluding
with au
Plato's refusing to hear the other side in
Blunder is of a priekiy-peui grcwlh, or.e leaf developed
his impossibilily of free speech in tbe
South has preserved a Code of Slavery whieli is lav he-
eiiliieih ii
will be tr
the South, say to Christ's getting it
,orF ' '
argument?
urnyl inheritance..
iet\th her moral si
.. ■ '■ .■ :.
I classes of society in tho
f he believes that
ared iu brutal ignorance?
c ;!,- VesmdilisofMesopotam:
sadly snggestiv.
io are the only race "of Devil-worshippers!) A Soot
l man will reply, no.
And ye! iiiese laws, renml'i there, trained by South•
indignatiou of thousands of Southern hearts,
misery, i
t premises, need internal
re-pui,sibilily prossir,,;;- cm !■:„:■,. mid growing Out of our
being one people, i would the presnire were heavier!
In this country, where, by the veiy nature of the rcpr."
n, all action and iufluence of the General
involving as they do the happiness or
>d or degradation, of men, women and chil-
erywhere—are shared by every tax-payer and
:>ral responsibility resting on each man is
What abject cant is it to say, The Northhai
in this
it is which they, by il.eirrepresentatives,have
Mil' .-. ;:.' .:■ :,.' ■■■■"....' 1 ..
that the voice of the ancient prophet should be io
Nothin
!('/. '':J,i
Winn tbe Nalloualfiag
District, nor in any United Slates Termory,
slave by -N oi'thcrn as well as Southern ennse
s any duty plainer than thein
-.'!: what it is which they, by
i jierpi'tus.llv sani'liomi:.:. i.
I that the voice of the unci
y breath which st
si uif.":l in.-
■
those who had assailed the South-
. and neglected the demonstrable fact that
{until attended to) the only assailable thing
pliciiy m i
but suffer themselves ti
the I'arii:
allurements. 1 have in en j-iai>n'd lo hear, in Boston,
the descendants of the Puritans apologizing for slavery.
They thought a Southern man would like that. But no
"- ■' rn man would like that! The Southerners, thank
re not so bad ; they m, Slavery is right; if nol.
no apology Jlr it. d,'o\ Bumlolph spoke their
'. ■ftimll'::.. I " t Olivy . ';. : ii.MI't 1 til tllS head Of ft
man whocan come kere from :h \on hand defend slavery."
Southern politicians are whim;; to make use of such,
'" ' they laugh in their sleeves; but the nobler men
imen of the South grieve to see men falling thus
di'lity,
down anywher
,' whole w
Ami tkose win
pale and say, " Who
rmy on the Alps desire nothing
"" re and sleep; and
Nothing is deadlier, at times, than pei
that your
been as the fly in wheat—
laid low ; fallins into in£-
7 Power 1
h Ufiristi
did the
... :e,tolie
sleep; and those who slept 1
' " es, than pc
won! Pence i.
should" be undisturbed—a disguise of that onlj
.tan, selfishness.
Ah, ye American men! too soon have you inscribed
/ -\ ie uucssiul had it been
the word had been in tlie otder in which t
iristiau places it—;first pi
is there but one path given
is in i ii. tig!-' direction ; gnat is in veering from that,
leremavbe inn:,, I tivceu the two
ight. What is the right line between
rine two men of entire candour and
, then peaceable. Never
■■ii to walk in: it. is that
dimorbright,
We can all irna;
irtesy—the c
bite and col
Nortlierner.—l a
white and colonred n
.
-We l
u the subject;' the ei
,er mast himself do .
lieve the institution is best f
,ke no doubt of your sincerit;
t that r
allow that, so long as I hold
ight of any hind to illegally interfere
igally as property?
A'or.—I do see that. The wrong is
what I hold
i my detesta-
:pting a right thing in a
is always an unsuccessful way.
rt us define the other 3idc. I lielieve that
i fl I t th it Brougham
■ailed it, oi- iho -'sum ol ail .11 is" which Wesley pro-
munced it, You are conneccil with it since..ly, and
herefore, unless you have reused possible light, ii.no-
icntly ; but, if I am connected with it, I sin.
" rtainly.
you and I have partnership in a slave, your
loeence aoes not escalpate me.
Soti.—Certainly not.
JVor.—If you seek to n:
lich I hold wrong, you ;
of slavei
like feeling, b
Sou.—Whic .
let us defii
therefore, unless you
ntly; but, if I ai
Sou.— Certainly.
3 right.
■ '■■ ■ i,
,i!ty:i-en t!
■;t pei-suade n
-It i-
ANOTIIER NEGRO-BURNING.
New Orleans Picayune,
30. 25, says:
particulars of a most horrid
ixington, in
orthy gentleman (whose
" hile riding on horsi
ulted by a negro man.
_)t to violate her person,
demoniac grasp until her strength
plisliing his purpose
almost
house. After de
and the people hu;
estate. They broimht 1,1m into lie town of Lexingtoi
tve iust received tht
Lexington, in this State,
hy gentl
forbear to make public), while riding on horseback
rro man, w
person. She
until she was s;id..
as in the act of accomplish
ight. The negro fled, and the genth
t inanimate girl to her father'
ig her there, he raised the alarm
ig him. He belonged
it is rather to be hoped
been accursed taut forever embittered-
lemay
iend. Iti
■i anu-siavery men whose motto is'mVo union with
davelwlders " as a blunder, occasioned by their not having
inloii with iheir real duty. Had they wo:
Christian principle, " First cast the beam out of thine
jwneye.and so see clearly to east ilic mote out of thy
brother's "; had thev not wasted t!ai ■ energies on slavery
" the South, but concentrated lium on slavery iu the
■
God made man alike in Maine aud Gafifbn
vi' reoeivid the approval of evt'iy sincere soul from
Thie blunder hashed its antithetical one in the South,
nd here, 1 may say, we must guard against our preju-
nes. Asa Viiv. ..iionshipnorth-
ird, of the remotest kind, past or present, I f
sily I might slide into a justification of my dear
e South. But the soul knows no prejudices or i
,d must see all under the pure light of reason f
The first error of the South has been an impat
the discussion of this question, reminding calm
m lunatic i .
who speak rationally on all the logics until yon touch
that on which they are deranged, when their innrat;
' wildly forth. This has caused them to put then
in ;-,i:'sLttltude hemre the wui'J.i which has brougli
they deserved—since they were at least sincer
3d them on to a still great greater rage agains
,c ut which, however unfair, was the result of the:
mistaken heat. It has precluded freedom of discui
whatever :
—it has led tl
hich, however unfa
heat. Ithasprec.....
policy which
brain or heart ever respectea yet The nat:
the Sottth haye again aad again sought to discuss it in
n without involving
my one path is out of it. The firm
Assuredly.
" ,da,li
. no People of the United
""hertver 1 ho firm deals w'" '
and the General Gove
' ■°U- %
firmly t<
vi,;: siavi
Now, my friends, let us approach
tions thus simply and quietly. The i
States are a firm. Wherever the firmdi
It, and
those who
t.iirmlv to declare themsel
by your concession, then by
said, j oar I'm her:- e. ■needed this and that, and
pledges
you should
nudbytl
If there be any com;
judged by my fofl
Is—evils
ad as sins. We do not wish to rid
i in National slaveholding, as from
i a moral defection, as falsehood or
is a part of God's Law, for he says
by every prophet, " I create evil." lie i< re.p:in>ih!e ar
whatever evils issue; we only for doing His will- Is not
■i.y soul his voice'.' Ami when i reject that voice, which
assures me it is wrong to do this, is it not a sad lack of
iai.k ui I lim'. As one who would say, "Thou, Infinite
■ oi foresee.asl do,
that this and that evil would follow
for three or four of Aft
idages, reply the others,
the old Roman sense, embracing "all thi
1 ' 'policy. Ri^
of ihe three
■
■■■
B of thirty millio
if best policy. Rightm
millions of negro

ifatifliial Mi
tmhwtk
VOL. XVI. NO. 39.
NEW YOKK, SATUKDAY, FEBRUABY 16, 1856.
WHOLE NO. 819.
Uutioirol JUtt-Slaiifrij ^taii&ari).
PUBLISHED WEEKLY, ON SATURDAY,
ANTI-SLA VER1
h Fifth St., Philadelphia.
THE POOR WHITES OF THE SOUTH.
1850, \
lui.ii'lred and twenty-live.
[endelil of lheeoii...|.m. lv„,if,J ,.ju. 1 g/ell.
tier of person.-, interested as slaveholdc
ris-iit, or bv hii'iiiv ri-lniiou. The whole i
iu the slavcholding States being 6,222,41
ing proportion i-: a i'.uelioti short of 31! pel
The Superintendent of tlie cons "
says of the number, 347,520, I'etur.
id forty-seven thousand fiv
in average of five person
med by the Superit
'-, the sliiveliiild-
Profcssor De Bow,
" slavehirers " merely
interested conjointly wilh others, m
lily relations, already
multiplied the number
.Marvlaii.l, Virg/lnnt, and the [ti-lricl ol Columbia, with
\li.-i-.lppi ami Louisiana, with S:: productive than skilled labour, aided by muchim ry
and accumulated capital,
vely agricultural, res
slave States (which
It is noticeable that Mr. Gregg, like Mr.'I
jy an attempt to allay patrician jealousies excited by the
den of eolleeiinglliopoor whiles inlo miisses. Mi'. Gregg
minin nui Iliiir the existence of slavery euuliie.-i eiipila! lo
■ontrol white labour lh well as black, by Ike power which
t retains to sub:1 itute the laiier. win n Ihe former l.'"oomes
lly cut. oil' even from this by the
'up with black slaves
eeeiilu:- gemr;
; uml the poi
P "
energy enoii;
only 27-1,ho::,
Tho u!
according to Mr. Gregg'
* unproduc'"" "
, tal, enler,
employed in c
/holly neglected, whiling away an exist
i advance of the Indian of the forest
and the comforts
South Oarolirw, by the
nearly ouv-half,
n Mat.t.idly idle
'.■':■
do truly cons
' ally i'or -,,.,
Gov. Hammond,
follows
I their children to
. ',0' I
u 1850, describes these poor whites ns
at-'3 '"^%ltu^riorZtir^lsJ'& **
Greggspeaks as follows:
p,,e,l,,ll,.t.,).ro
Is it really ti
hat South Carolina n
which one-filth of
ibe r
avageb, while
In a paper ,
c'.-'io-eation of the Smith.
lion -I. 11. Lumpkin, of Georgia, says :
ing nnd discouraging; distres,;-
wuy to nsjieetabiliiy so difficult that they decline thi
hopcf ss pursuit, ceasing to struggle, and becoming lis,
almost ]i.m:,i.o subject, of iho coiiMipieuci.', of idleiU'is
.. ■ j ■ .,■ o: il'iti il o.vhii'its ibis great bulk of tl ■
white population growing worse instead ot better, evl
tiinlly diteriiiniliug.iiuil iis younger portion less edueatid,
less iiiiluslriiii.i.,, and in fiery point of view less lespeela-
' In tin: Janiiarv number, of I soil, of De Bow's Review,
ionr, nvCu-\o.t,i.
at the South, in factories and miuini
« The Future of the South " (De Low'
page 146) says that '-the-blacks uru eq
)a>!o,iiiOs infields."
A writev in The Mississippian aaya
■ei'1-where
author of
■, vol. id.
slave :.o free States, 1
Ight to a!
. Onth
the following e
s a transposition of t
find the true number;
ie observed that the «
double that of the si
e of Southern whites i
' .. " ..:' ■'.: .
It is to be olr
i-ing South.
'that ike il
called, as if in bitter
There is reason euor
iressing upou the i
i, last and strongest, what
a numbers living in frei
■
W from 838,387, the entire number of emigrants from
use Slates, we deduct otiefouflli pari, asMtiiied lo be
.'1,1: is of slaves, ami I ltd iibie i-ompclled io .elect iheir
.-Idem: In slave States, we have loft 628,790 as the
iliiber oi emigrants not holders of sla'.es, oo-i .:■
■ llin' piujiit.
propriate io iheir ministry, n moral questions
ot enter here, what should ? Aud if questions
g the happiness of millions, and tlie good relations
in wilh section, and man with man, throughout
; lite saddest day that evci" lawned on the country
is was made any other than a moral question. In
the day wheu it was made one of nalmnal podlieid i-suc.
If tbe emi.gral.iiui from the border States, it is to be
tes, is less controlled by the consideration of climate
ti is the direction of ih'; i ' ■ ;!■
ni. ov the extreme South.
'he following table shows the number of persons living
.850 in Illinois, JndiMi.a a-..;' Mi .v ui, who emigrated
a tbe slave States, cicludug the border States, and
lading Arkansas, which is adjacent to Missouri:
Here is -a:-, emigration iuvoivi;:-; considerable journies
u-'d not cuulrollid by ibe coiioide.lotion of immediati
d three-fifths
, fair inference,
the Southern emigrau
" " s of these emigrants
tlie operation of the
i, mboiityo
slaveholders w
• otherwi:,c any political weight
lable that
Where it forms a i
□ Southern Illinois,
standard of intellig
,h;t.:::o.'"ll'rcSoUt
lock. They are
tlested upon a he
nd still resph '
>o banner flo
of the Valley
Inguishable gallantry of tl
If the Constitusii';
' Mexico than that up-bor
wello
■ ■ :
[hat no equal
u He whole, a
astwithtl "
■ ■ .: I ■;-.-
orrible pit nl'the
he South to rcei.i
'.a not permit them to recap-
nlser of negroes
s of the &
advancement. liven if ilu.-j
" a half of
stock have been deprived of
ol t];,- area slavery would
"period of time, liven if tiiis be
3uty is to our own ra.
inejccusible folly to p
It as we now witness in the Southe
over again upon the vast areas of the West. Where thi
, ibe i. e.tlou v.hioii jo.'i be
subsist between them may ai:b.
;,uti; I-, ii'ii.iiisi the clear aud manifest dictates of commoi
sense, vol,nuni'livM willingly and with our eyes open,
subject the white man to a com
any tei a lien, is un incumbrance
An equal n
order of Provk'
inferior n
It is sa
add to the personal c
cimsiderab!
, e paid for
trof people of the ■■
rtoti;L
' ■
will be a
h a sacrifi
States to be enacted
a companionship which, u
t upon regions r
aofw
7 and virgin from the
■
in an article Upon the Estaidtshine-nt -.,f Monojoeiori:., oj
New Orleans, which I find in De Bow's Re.view for
January, 1850. The writer, whose name is not given,
but who appears to be a citissen of New Orleans, says:
" At present, *^r^» Tci-^alite^andTn inabUk"'^
.''■,l...m.'
of low wages and want of employment
, of Tennessee, in a paper upon
ashedoes, thceiui.'ioviuiiti
', u
whites in factories.as
more for the general good
mimanity. Men are
not governed in matters 0
adapted to factories,
it iiil
be employed, be the
consequences to the commi
employed exclusively,
as in the Tenne
be insuperable repug-
de and on an equalitj
with black slaves.
The difficulty in the case
cible. Tbe property-
sand serviceable body
lllsii"
..boitrers, who
in be fed for S^i) pec utumn
aud clothed for 810 per ai
ium; who can be kept indus-
;rious uud preserved from
ibilitatiug vices by coercion
and, under any tolerable
operty-holding three-
'ir kboSa?eCtel!' Wh6Q
It is not wonderiul tl
nightmare which bioo.b ,,
seek escape from the
and fly by thousand!
born in the slave States, w
206,638 persons born
heighten the hidcrm1 reality
which the
- ■ ■ ?mpi
shall be
if the doubtful assent of embryo
■
It is lor
ished field;
neglected and
itude, of proximity, of border violei
I assent of embr
the other hand, it shall
universal as the iaipoiwity of Good to Evi
perpetual as the rightful authority
tbeaffai
mbodied will of tl
Geo. M. Westos.
res of these States,
s slill unorganized.
: apprehension new
itriot. Our young
isen before him, and
liie ihe llvdra here.
n toward manifold
s ! whither has thy
i common ground.
different parties.
I do not think the pulpit
such. I, ther
doubt, as L touch this mo
that you will sympathize with meat
also o! ,!iv. •-.-
used to assa
not permit my.
lubject, that yc
other. I do so only
my heart barns to point you to the anciei
' "".oug, whieli, when seen, n
■, like the objects of tbe
evidence.
I.elosn; I;
estate of thin)
imist—the
f Eight a
I
s to itself will
iy circle, moral or geometric, being gU
, be discovered and described, and the rt
s no words on the do-^iua thai such subji
; humanity. It
■oiupleieiy tl,, w
i the*
e all qu
n of North and S
should be banished as unhealthy here,
an any other the just
■
you may predict his
i but blackened earth and ashes ; thei
1 the poli
and the political
I . v, uleh-iJri.
!es have fallen
ugher ..wiikesis. Hitherto w
show you how this political
failed,e
>s canvassed.
Ml'. ni '..
ibjects no higher than its own. Eacl
ae torward with its nostrum, declaring itsel
old Dr. Jacob Townsend, whose pills, am
rMMnSMM ,,,,„::;: ninV
.tioiiality. Tho Inflammation has spread with every
i ■ on until this; and with this, the very powers
o'iammaliou io ipnud seem nearly death-
11. I doubt not it would be so with the udminisiKiti a
any merely political party in the country. Let the
people know,
: : M
they who I
of the slavery question—every wheel
stilled 1
of things, it will not be the popular heart,
i knows how alone he :" ■ d or degradation, of men, women and chil-
erywhere—are shared by every tax-payer and
:>ral responsibility resting on each man is
What abject cant is it to say, The Northhai
in this
it is which they, by il.eirrepresentatives,have
Mil' .-. ;:.' .:■ :,.' ■■■■"....' 1 ..
that the voice of the ancient prophet should be io
Nothin
!('/. '':J,i
Winn tbe Nalloualfiag
District, nor in any United Slates Termory,
slave by -N oi'thcrn as well as Southern ennse
s any duty plainer than thein
-.'!: what it is which they, by
i jierpi'tus.llv sani'liomi:.:. i.
I that the voice of the unci
y breath which st
si uif.":l in.-
■
those who had assailed the South-
. and neglected the demonstrable fact that
{until attended to) the only assailable thing
pliciiy m i
but suffer themselves ti
the I'arii:
allurements. 1 have in en j-iai>n'd lo hear, in Boston,
the descendants of the Puritans apologizing for slavery.
They thought a Southern man would like that. But no
"- ■' rn man would like that! The Southerners, thank
re not so bad ; they m, Slavery is right; if nol.
no apology Jlr it. d,'o\ Bumlolph spoke their
'. ■ftimll'::.. I " t Olivy . ';. : ii.MI't 1 til tllS head Of ft
man whocan come kere from :h \on hand defend slavery."
Southern politicians are whim;; to make use of such,
'" ' they laugh in their sleeves; but the nobler men
imen of the South grieve to see men falling thus
di'lity,
down anywher
,' whole w
Ami tkose win
pale and say, " Who
rmy on the Alps desire nothing
"" re and sleep; and
Nothing is deadlier, at times, than pei
that your
been as the fly in wheat—
laid low ; fallins into in£-
7 Power 1
h Ufiristi
did the
... :e,tolie
sleep; and those who slept 1
' " es, than pc
won! Pence i.
should" be undisturbed—a disguise of that onlj
.tan, selfishness.
Ah, ye American men! too soon have you inscribed
/ -\ ie uucssiul had it been
the word had been in tlie otder in which t
iristiau places it—;first pi
is there but one path given
is in i ii. tig!-' direction ; gnat is in veering from that,
leremavbe inn:,, I tivceu the two
ight. What is the right line between
rine two men of entire candour and
, then peaceable. Never
■■ii to walk in: it. is that
dimorbright,
We can all irna;
irtesy—the c
bite and col
Nortlierner.—l a
white and colonred n
.
-We l
u the subject;' the ei
,er mast himself do .
lieve the institution is best f
,ke no doubt of your sincerit;
t that r
allow that, so long as I hold
ight of any hind to illegally interfere
igally as property?
A'or.—I do see that. The wrong is
what I hold
i my detesta-
:pting a right thing in a
is always an unsuccessful way.
rt us define the other 3idc. I lielieve that
i fl I t th it Brougham
■ailed it, oi- iho -'sum ol ail .11 is" which Wesley pro-
munced it, You are conneccil with it since..ly, and
herefore, unless you have reused possible light, ii.no-
icntly ; but, if I am connected with it, I sin.
" rtainly.
you and I have partnership in a slave, your
loeence aoes not escalpate me.
Soti.—Certainly not.
JVor.—If you seek to n:
lich I hold wrong, you ;
of slavei
like feeling, b
Sou.—Whic .
let us defii
therefore, unless you
ntly; but, if I ai
Sou.— Certainly.
3 right.
■ '■■ ■ i,
,i!ty:i-en t!
■;t pei-suade n
-It i-
ANOTIIER NEGRO-BURNING.
New Orleans Picayune,
30. 25, says:
particulars of a most horrid
ixington, in
orthy gentleman (whose
" hile riding on horsi
ulted by a negro man.
_)t to violate her person,
demoniac grasp until her strength
plisliing his purpose
almost
house. After de
and the people hu;
estate. They broimht 1,1m into lie town of Lexingtoi
tve iust received tht
Lexington, in this State,
hy gentl
forbear to make public), while riding on horseback
rro man, w
person. She
until she was s;id..
as in the act of accomplish
ight. The negro fled, and the genth
t inanimate girl to her father'
ig her there, he raised the alarm
ig him. He belonged
it is rather to be hoped
been accursed taut forever embittered-
lemay
iend. Iti
■i anu-siavery men whose motto is'mVo union with
davelwlders " as a blunder, occasioned by their not having
inloii with iheir real duty. Had they wo:
Christian principle, " First cast the beam out of thine
jwneye.and so see clearly to east ilic mote out of thy
brother's "; had thev not wasted t!ai ■ energies on slavery
" the South, but concentrated lium on slavery iu the
■
God made man alike in Maine aud Gafifbn
vi' reoeivid the approval of evt'iy sincere soul from
Thie blunder hashed its antithetical one in the South,
nd here, 1 may say, we must guard against our preju-
nes. Asa Viiv. ..iionshipnorth-
ird, of the remotest kind, past or present, I f
sily I might slide into a justification of my dear
e South. But the soul knows no prejudices or i
,d must see all under the pure light of reason f
The first error of the South has been an impat
the discussion of this question, reminding calm
m lunatic i .
who speak rationally on all the logics until yon touch
that on which they are deranged, when their innrat;
' wildly forth. This has caused them to put then
in ;-,i:'sLttltude hemre the wui'J.i which has brougli
they deserved—since they were at least sincer
3d them on to a still great greater rage agains
,c ut which, however unfair, was the result of the:
mistaken heat. It has precluded freedom of discui
whatever :
—it has led tl
hich, however unfa
heat. Ithasprec.....
policy which
brain or heart ever respectea yet The nat:
the Sottth haye again aad again sought to discuss it in
n without involving
my one path is out of it. The firm
Assuredly.
" ,da,li
. no People of the United
""hertver 1 ho firm deals w'" '
and the General Gove
' ■°U- %
firmly t<
vi,;: siavi
Now, my friends, let us approach
tions thus simply and quietly. The i
States are a firm. Wherever the firmdi
It, and
those who
t.iirmlv to declare themsel
by your concession, then by
said, j oar I'm her:- e. ■needed this and that, and
pledges
you should
nudbytl
If there be any com;
judged by my fofl
Is—evils
ad as sins. We do not wish to rid
i in National slaveholding, as from
i a moral defection, as falsehood or
is a part of God's Law, for he says
by every prophet, " I create evil." lie i< re.p:in>ih!e ar
whatever evils issue; we only for doing His will- Is not
■i.y soul his voice'.' Ami when i reject that voice, which
assures me it is wrong to do this, is it not a sad lack of
iai.k ui I lim'. As one who would say, "Thou, Infinite
■ oi foresee.asl do,
that this and that evil would follow
for three or four of Aft
idages, reply the others,
the old Roman sense, embracing "all thi
1 ' 'policy. Ri^
of ihe three
■
■■■
B of thirty millio
if best policy. Rightm
millions of negro